Dominion
A relentless investigative documentary uses covert footage to confront the ethics of industrial animal exploitation across food, fashion, entertainment, and research.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- harrowing
- confrontational
- morally urgent
- activist screening
- ethical reflection
What critics said
The available reception record emphasizes Dominion's force as an animal-rights advocacy documentary and its impact within vegan activism.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Drones, hidden cameras, and handheld cameras document animal agriculture and other exploitative industries.
The film directly interrogates humankind's claimed dominion over the animal kingdom and the concept of speciesism.
The film exposes abuse as advocacy material and has been adopted by vegan protest groups.
The documentary moves beyond food production to examine multiple systems that exploit animals.
Films like Dominion, and why
Earthlings
animal rights documentary using investigative footage to challenge industrial exploitation and speciesism
Eating Our Way to Extinction
environmental documentary combining ethical argument, advocacy, and disturbing evidence about human treatment of animals
Blackfish
confrontational documentary exposing institutionalized animal cruelty and encouraging ethical reconsideration
Movie Details
- Director
- Chris Delforce
- Release Date
- 2018-03-29
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rating
- 8.5 / 10 (98)
Cast
- Rooney Mara
- Joaquin Phoenix
- Sia
- Sadie Sink
- Kat Von D
- Chris Delforce
Common questions
- What is Dominion about?
- A relentless investigative documentary uses covert footage to confront the ethics of industrial animal exploitation across food, fashion, entertainment, and research.
- What is Dominion like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Dominion as measured, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Dominion violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Dominion as graphic.
- What did critics think of Dominion?
- The available reception record emphasizes Dominion's force as an animal-rights advocacy documentary and its impact within vegan activism.
- Which films are like Dominion?
- Films with a similar feel include Earthlings, Eating Our Way to Extinction, and Blackfish.
- How long is Dominion?
- Dominion runs 120 minutes.
